{"id":7053,"date":"2008-01-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-flex-muscles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2008\/hedge-funds-flex-muscles.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds flex muscles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Inquirer- The lousy January start for the U.S. stock market is giving activist hedge funds plenty of company in the misery they see. <\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to look far for local examples. Comcast Corp. and its chairman and CEO Brian L. Roberts have come under withering criticism from a hedge fund that owns about 2 percent of the cable company&#8217;s shares.<\/p>\n<p>Chieftain Capital Management Inc. sent a letter to Comcast&#8217;s board of directors in which it called for the ouster of Brian Roberts as CEO. It also wants the board to change the company&#8217;s voting structure, under which the founding Roberts family keeps control with 33 percent of the voting power while owning about 1 percent of the shares.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/business\/20080128_Hedge_funds_flex_muscles.html\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Inquirer- The lousy January start for the U.S. stock market is giving activist hedge funds plenty of company in the misery they see. You don&#8217;t have to look far for local examples. Comcast Corp. and its chairman and CEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}